I thought I could use the wildcard character on the classpath to include a bunch of jars in a single directory but it's not working. java -cp C:\dir\lib\*.jar myapp Something wrong with my syntax? Thanks, Drew
Is there any solution to specify the classpath using wildcards? No there's not. There is a Bug Report to fix this, I'm not sure when Sun will get round to fixing it. In the meantime, you can do 3 things - write your Java bootstrap program which reads in the list of Jar files recursivley and passes then as an argument to Runtime.getRuntime().exec("java...") etc. - use a unix script to call java for you,this time using shell script to pick all the Jar files up from the relevant directory (for *.jar in dir $classpath = $classpath:jar ) etc - extract all the jars to one place, then rezip them up and put that on your class path. [ March 27, 2004: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]
JavaBeginnersFaq "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present." Eleanor Roosevelt
With a little knowledge, a cast iron skillet is non-stick and lasts a lifetime.